“A book is from your heart and mind, it is your love put to words.” — Michael Anthony Copy Share Image
Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story. — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice. — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
“A writer's life and work are not a gift to humankind; they are its necessity.” — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I judged about a zillion awards this year so I've been reading a lot of books that just came out. — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
Mostly, you become a writer not because you want to get rich or famous, but because you have to write; because there… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be? — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
“anyone who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
'The Crimson Petal and the White' is a book, and it will win or lose the trust of each reader when they… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
I always like to write myself into a corner. I think the best stuff comes from only having a few ways out. — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
“The fiction writer is the ombudsman who argues our humble, dubious case in the halls of eternal record.” — John Updike Copy Share Image
You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair - the sense that you can never completely… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Here is a secret good thing: Sometimes I like journal writing at school because I can remind myself of things I might… — Sara Pennypacker Copy Share Image
You know you don't have to be an actor when you read a book to a child. All you need is to… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Book ideas are like planes, lined up to approach the runway. Some never leave the gate, but others move quickly to the… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
“When Jessica DuLong describes her work in the engine room of the John J. Harvey, you can practically feel the throb of… — Matthew B. Crawford Copy Share Image
This is a glorious biography ... The time is ripe for a new biography of Edith Wharton of this intimacy and on… — Mark Bostridge Copy Share Image
You must find some way to elevate your act of writing into an entertainment. Usually this means giving the reader an enjoyable… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“I tell my students to write of their true subjects. How will they know when they are writing of their true subjects?… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
